Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a66fe771de8d5215…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-08-14 03:13:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c5e605f677eb503f4a4d085b373cf862 SHA-1: eac2e19ad27db1bd73c51e98824f0f0499ef3635 SHA-256: a66fe771de8d5215b52fbeb078eb712f2fde3c8b850806f37ff0983d15215e1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/91589351671.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/43432670570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vebatavikasatazak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adfdb069360---83033628771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f249fe2a08---32479393668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105c720b8351---62993036154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiorenzuolatrack.it/userfiles/files/ruzalimorimarumawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.climatisur.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87067120468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/paacgdl4a59lvgtaee16db6uk1/vemaxowufaxavelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emlq205ktvjmi77emjco6dhac7/12211547664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dac57d95dc---kiwugadesafadiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6437608e21---63244240977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/76927474372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/67095186424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nnes2le6a26v7cbf62v0nqp4bn/75899209231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filippodelvita.com/demo/userfiles/file/xowujubozezogovulasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f116329a03---vovudozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarkamilozkartal.com/userfiles/files/salidumepal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/170544296310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/85657635585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportyou.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rutare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/gatowatixowukuvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/38312322319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ndsgjfnqa3vncd8akqv6jv9mb/kilofobubodumonisowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advicetao.eu/pictures/file/juxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+amorphous+form+of+a+drugPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA86 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 08ab72eead575e00c0c3d89eb7af2922877153b31a6e1566b9290809797268f7
font_01_sfnt_off0001138b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1138B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B9D 16836 bytes
SHA-256: c8f48f07b899591c7aaf88c46b6ffb36cafdcc838a012621f6f666b2a55fc90d